Sub-decadal North Atlantic Oscillation variability in observations and the Kiel Climate Model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 48, Issue 11-12, 2017, Pages 3475-3487

  Reintges, Annika ^a   Latif, Mojib ^a,b   Park, Wonsun ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation(AMOC); Atmosphere ocean interaction; North Atlantic climate variability; North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); Sub decadalvariability

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OVERTURN; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84979520482     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3279-0     Document Type: Article

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